In the franchise’s first movie, eponymous hero Daniel LaRusso is bullied by Johnny Lawrence, a black belt in karate, and his friends after talking to Johnny’s ex-girlfriend.

This article contains spoilers for "Cobra Kai" season 6, part 3. "The Karate Kid" movies started it, and "Cobra Kai" embraced it: the use of increasingly absurd special moves to win the day.

When my son John was about 10 or 11, we took karate together. Every Saturday, we’d head to Lexington from Mount Sterling for our weekly class. My memory has a great many gaping holes in it, but ...

A new “Karate Kid” movie is on the way, and this time, it’s a tag team of legends. Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio are passing the black belt on to a new kid on the dojo block.

F orty-one years ago, Ralph Macchio landed the role of a bullied high school student who learns karate from his apartment building’s handyman in The Karate Kid.Few people involved with the movie ...

Conrad coach Josh Ragsdale was a blue belt in karate before giving it up to focus on football in 1991. Now, after the death of 18-year-old team captain ...